Busy and sick and busy some more

Ah! Ah! I've been bad and neglected this, already! Oh, woe, and woeful heavy day, when wretches have their will. Thank-you, Byrd, for commandeering my mind and sticking in bits of your madrigals at inopportune times. Everything is much better from last week (was it really only last week? Golly gosh and heavens above!), but not much less busy, and I got a bit of a scare a few days ago thinking I'd gotten the horrible horrible bug that's going around, but it turned out to be just a normal kind of faffy cold. I'm barely finding time to practise enough, let alone do crafty things :( I did, however, allow myself a bit of respite from whatever it is I'm filling up my life with - I'm not too sure myself - by making these little mabobs:



aren't they cute? I rather think so. I made the pink and blue ones first as a bit of a thank-you present for my viola teacher (well. for his two daughters, not him - I don't think they would quite suit him...) but then I found myself a little bit obsessed with the cuteness and promptly made 3 more. They're made of felt, about 4 or 5 cm across, and have a little fabric wing and have a clippy clip (technical term.) fixed to the back. I wore one to uni today and it got quite a few oohs and aahs, so I might pop a few up on the shop.

I am sorely tempted to blow two tutoring sessions worth of monies on some Threadless shirts - they have a sale there now and it's just a bit too tempting. Sadly (or happily?) I don't have a credit card so I'm going to have to beg Mum or Dad very nicely and pay them back... Hooray for parents!

Well it's late (12:18 to be exact) and I must be off, for I am to go a-questing with my Brother Dearest on the morrow in search of a new viola bow. His, not mine. Which means I'm driving, which means possible scary situations.

Ciao!

P.S. Anyone heard of a German band/artist/singer (not sure) called Subway to Sally? I should google them, but I found a song called Kleid Ause Rosen (Akustisch) on my itunes that I must have downloaded and forgotten about. It's a pretty interesting song, and now I'm going all light-headed so I really should probably go to sleep!

Canberra, Choir, Competitions and Crazy Ctiredness

I now know what utter exhaustion feels like. It includes at least 3 free breakdowns, 1 of which will be at the point you really could do without one. Feeling like you are on the brink of mental blue screen of death is a free extra also. DO NOT TRY IT AT HOME or anywhere else. It's not so nice.

The choir I'm in, So-La Voce, went down to Canberra for the weekend for the Australian National Eisteddfod, and so after getting up at 4:30 to catch our plane, and some frantic last-minute music studying, we won all three categories we entered, which included the open choral championships. Which is lots of yay! So we went out to celebrate at what. 10:30PM, which was just after we had finished singing. So then we stayed up watching the olympics and didn't go to sleep till 2 xD Canberra is nice and all, and it has a kick-ass science centre (freefall anyone!?), but it is creepily unpopulated. We went out for a walk on Saturday afternoon in the city, and there was absolutely no-one. Quite scary for us.

So pretty much I've not done anything crafty much in the last week, and I've also been late with sending out people's orders, for which I apologise profusely. Almost caught up!

Quickie

Just dropping in to post what I've been doing in my spare five minutes, when I haven't been practising, studying (hahaha as if), driving and NOT crashing - hooray!, or going to particularly awesome concerts which make me hoarse like this:


The Idea of North. If you like anything to do with a capella or jazz or awesome, look them up. They tour Australia quite regularly and are going to South Korea soon to collab with The Real Group who are super. They were fantastic. Like, amazingly fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that they sang CHILI CON CARNE which is a song of epic awesomeness (The Real Group composed and first performed this). Me = Instant Fan: Just Add Water!
(actually you don't really need water)

Anyway. I've been embroidering some bits of calico so that I can make some buttonnnnns of the covered variety which I have been obsessing over lately and also being quite sad because I wore one and it fell out somewhere in the Old Museum Building. Oh well! I'll be pairing these ones with matching gingham because gingham is awesome and stuff.

I am particularly taken with the mushrooms and the doggy.
Hooray for cute!

I'll post them when I've gotten around to making them into ze buttons.

Ciao!

Well that failed

I should have known that as soon as I said, I have to stop crafting to concentrate on things I should be doing, I would immediately not do that. I like to think I have managed to stuff both into my time.

Either way, I have discovered the wonder that is covered button kits. Also another pair of earrings.


Using some of the material I got (this is from Japan).


Different sizes. I need to get some more bigger ones...


Pretty Japanese fabric that I hadn't been able to find a use for, but mostly was just too scared to cut up.


Cute little tiny gingham ones


More puny ones. They're cute but they don't show the material so well :/


Mmmm, purple! I particularly like the amethyst discs up the top.

That's me for today.

Oh oh oh. I've been asked to go into one of the quartets at uni because their violist pulled out and we're playing Dvorak's American quartet!!! It makes my ears happy (not the way we're playing it at the moment but hey, we're sightreading). Love for Dvorak who liked viola!!!! :D

I am clever.

Oh so very clever.
I have procrastinated myself into a corner. Which means, even though I have just received all this lovely stuff


I will not be able to use it any time soon. And I have about a million ideas floating around my head at the moment so it is sad for me.

I have to concentrate on my studies and viola practice for a while. I have learned the error of my ways - them mostly being overcommitting to ensembles not within the one institution. Which means I have to fight with my conductors to let me out of a rehearsal to go to the other's concert, instead of them fighting instead, and cutting out the middle-girl.

Sigh.

Sorry, to anyone who was actually looking at this to see any crafty things I'm doing. I promise I'll keep this alive

Relief, and retail therapy.

I apologise profusely for the crappiness of the last post. All (well. most) has been right-ed.

Here are a few of my favourite things:



My Lovely Lost Sheep (it sadly was stripped naked and robbed of its companion, the Black Beady Slightly Spastic Looking Cat. May you rest in peace)


What I ate instead of Mrs Fields Cookies. They were suitably delicious. My friends snub me, but I love Dried Peaches for who they are (delicious).


Tissues and Panadol: My Constant Companions, for I am afflicted with hayfever.


My Beloved (it is a VIOLA. Come now, don't let's be racist!)

And of course...

RETAIL THERAPY.


This is what I got today. I am bad. But, Lincraft had a 50% sale for all their material, so i just had to! You know. Covered buttons are fun :D


I'm going to make this into a skirt. The cherries are absolutely too cute.


See? They're transparent! >w< href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28964667@N08/2721661225/" title="previous splurge by littleawkwardpeople, on Flickr">
Some gorgeous Japanese material I got a few months ago. It is quite divine (which is why it's still untouched - I'm also a bit scared of it)


What I made a few weeks ago. It was the first thing I made all by myself, so I was proud of myself. It hasn't broken yet! I stole the pear from http://mollychicken.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/09/happy-pear.html. I wish it could be as cute as hers, but it has added spastic-charm factor.


It has a long handle :D


Useless buttons are fun. This was supposed to be a 10 minute project and it turned into about 40 minutes because my sewing machine kept bunging itself in. *sigh*


I took this photo intending it to look like a little bed, but now I realise it's looking slightly freakily like a coffin or something.

Oh well!

Thanks to My Lovely Wife and co. for helping cheer me up whilst I was in the Depths of Despair. It was fun :D